Implementation Lead

Apollo Hospitals; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Apollo Hospitals in Hyderabad seeks an Implementation Lead to drive large-scale EMR, HIS, and allied digital health deployments across hospitals and clinical units. The role ensures alignment with workflows, regulatory compliance, and strong user adoption among doctors, nurses, and administrative teams.

The candidate will lead end-to-end implementations, manage vendors and integrators, oversee testing and go-live activities, and report program status to leadership.

Qualifications

• Requires leadership of large-scale healthcare IT implementations.
• Strong understanding of clinical and operations workflows in OPD/IPD/SCM/RCM.
• Experience with regulatory compliance and data privacy in healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end implementation of EMR, HIS, LIS, RIS, PACS and other digital health solutions.
• Define rollout strategy across hospitals, specialties, and clinical workflows.
• Collaborate with clinical leadership to align system configuration with care delivery processes.
• Manage vendors, system integrators, and third-party solution partners.
• Oversee UAT, clinical validations, defect management, and signoffs.
• Plan and execute go-live, cutover, and hypercare support.
• Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations, data privacy, and security standards.
• Drive training, change management, and clinician adoption.
• Provide executive dashboards, RAID logs, and program status reports.

Skills

EMR/HIS implementations

Stakeholder management

Healthcare IT leadership

Change management

Clinical workflow understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/Health Informatics/CS

Job description

Job Title: Implementation Lead

Location: Hyderabad

Working Days: 6 Days (Mon-Sat) (All Days work from Office)

Role Summary

The Implementation Manager Digital Health is responsible for leading large-scale implementations of EMR, HIS, and allied digital health platforms across hospitals and clinical units. The role ensures seamless rollout, clinical workflow alignment, regulatory compliance, system integrations, and high user adoption across doctors, nurses, and administrative teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end implementation of EMR, HIS, LIS, RIS, PACS, and digital health solutions
• Define rollout strategy across hospitals, specialties, and clinical workflows
• Collaborate with clinical leadership to align system configuration with care delivery processes
• Manage vendors, system integrators, and third-party solution partners
• Oversee UAT, clinical validations, defect management, and signoffs
• Plan and execute go-live, cutover, and hypercare support
• Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations, data privacy, and security standards
• Drive training, change management, and clinician adoption
• Provide executive dashboards, RAID logs, and program status reports

Qualifications & Experience

Bachelor's degree in engineering, Health Informatics, Computer Science, or equivalent. 10–14 years of experience in healthcare IT or enterprise system implementations, with at least 5 years in a leadership or program management role.

Technical & Domain Competencies

• Strong hands-on experience with EMR/HIS implementations
• Good Understanding of clinical and Operations workflows (OPD, IPD, SCM, RCM,)
• Knowledge of integrations, HL7, APIs, and interoperability
• Experience with data migration, master data governance, and reporting
• Familiarity with healthcare compliance and regulatory requirements

Leadership & Behavioral Competencies

• Strong stakeholder management across clinicians, IT, and hospital leadership
• Ability to manage complex, multi-hospital rollouts
• Decision-making under clinical and operational pressure
• Structured, detail-oriented, and outcome-driven approach

Key Success Indicators

• Successful on-time EMR/HIS go-lives
• High clinician adoption and workflow compliance
• Minimal post go-live clinical or operational disruptions
• Positive feedback from hospital leadership and users